tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36290181794938568192024-02-21T19:19:11.764+13:00I was like good graciousAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352544520180497607noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629018179493856819.post-64906013358440688422015-12-23T07:23:00.000+13:002015-12-23T07:23:01.845+13:00Dublin the fifthLast day, first stop - one quarter of the national museum. It's spread over four sites - this particular one is history and decorative arts.<br />
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This quadrangle don't mess around.</div>
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Neither do the Irish when it comes to fightin', as I learned.</div>
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These were art inspired by, alas, not liquorice allsorts. Military ribbons.</div>
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This was my favourite thing - they've turned the mechanism for the quad's clock into an exhibit. </div>
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Next I went to the Irish Modern Art Museum, which itself respectably quadrangled, and was worth the visit, although not quite on the level of its Scottish equivalent.</div>
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View from the museum. There is no denying the hugeness of that obelisk.</div>
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I made my way back central to finish of the last bits of shopping, via a cathedral, a cathedral, a castle and a college. This is St Patricks Cathedral.</div>
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And this is St Patrick's Square.</div>
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Now, I'm off to farewell people at the train station. Everyone's going home for Christmas. Farewell Dublin, you three-flaming-castled bastard!</div>
Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352544520180497607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629018179493856819.post-2594796281679633192015-12-22T11:56:00.001+13:002015-12-22T11:56:53.508+13:00Dublin the fourthWhat kind of idiot was I when decided I'd do my Christmas shopping in Dublin? The. Worst.<br />
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The rest of the day was fun though! It included a random trip to Red Cow, because Red Cow sounds cute, and I had a day pass for the tram. Yeah, it turns out Red Cow is just a carpark. But Simon's reaction when I told him I'd been to Red Cow was pretty good, so it was kind of worth it.<br />
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These things, outside the arena. Who knows. Fortunately, art doesn't need to be explained, Warren.</div>
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This thing, along the riverside. It's about the size of a shipping container and I thought it might have been a super-exclusive nightclub. Turns out it's an<span style="font-family: inherit;"> art to disguise some utility pipes. Well played, <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Bord Gáis.</span></span></div>
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This bridge.</div>
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A grand canal, to be sure. This is the tech hub area of Dublin. I saw a Google!</div>
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I went and hung out with Oscar again, because what's not to love about quilted cuffs.</div>
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Followed by a stroll through St Stephen's Green.</div>
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It was most charming, and I saw some swans get their comeuppance in the fierce wind. Take that, you smug bastards.</div>
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This morning we went to Kilmainham Gaol, which was excellent and sobering. We had an amazing guide who did more for Irish history in half an hour than an entire term of the same subject in fifth form. It was brilliant context for the bullet holes Cormac showed me in the facade of the General Post Office yesterday.</div>
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It took me ages to get this photo while standing in line in the gaol courtyard. The flag was not cooperating, or, as I put it, "being a real Amy".</div>
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The cells in the horrifying west wing, which dates from the 1700s.</div>
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Wellington Monument, the largest obelisk in Europe, located in Phoenix Park, the...actually, I don't know...Cormac called it the largest urban park in the...something, but it seems to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_parks_by_size" target="_blank">way down the list</a>. Largest urban park in Dublin though, certainly =P</div>
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We made our way homeward via Dublin's main Christmas market, wherein festive beverages were consumed. Jingle!</div>
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...at Guinness University, from which I now hold a qualification (including actual certificate) in everything beer.</div>
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Artist's representation of Guinness. I feel like "May contain traces of horse" should be written pretty prominently on the label.</div>
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Dublin's spire needle pointy thingy has been turned into a Christmas lightsaber, just like the one wielded by Baby Jesus.</div>
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352544520180497607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629018179493856819.post-63825431295370987242015-12-19T08:21:00.000+13:002015-12-19T08:22:55.556+13:00Dublin the firstNot much to report. Spent most of today in transit, which I would be ticked off about, but oh wait. Full of beer - don't care!<br />
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First, a final early-morning walk around Edinburgh, where I got a formal farewell on behalf of the Gulls of Scotland (note: may not actually be a thing).</div>
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Then to Dublin (the third time I've been here! In the past week!) where I surprised a church.</div>
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Christmas trees of the day. A maze of them. This is the view from the gorgeous National Gallery cafe, where I had second breakfast, because, as a character in one of my favourite books says, "Great art requires stamina" (although originally he said it through a mouthful of food and the protagonist heard "Grey tart requires stamina") BUT I DIGRESS.</div>
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First up, the main gallery, where I saw The Honourable Mrs Graham, who I have decided in the Rococo Cordelia Chase. "Hey Gainsborough, look how this ruby brings out my breasts. You know you were thinking it!"</div>
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Onward to the Modern Gallery, where this bleak message in the sculpture garden welcomes you to Modern Two.</div>
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The news at Modern One is slightly more optimistic.</div>
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So is the landscaping, which is also the art.</div>
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This is pretty much the reason I am in Edinburgh. Not exactly to see the piece itself (although it is cool), but because when it was in Auckland a couple of years ago and I saw it was on loan from the Modern Scottish Gallery, I thought "Wow, they must have an awesome collection. I want to go to there." And so I did and verily it was awesome. They also have my favourite Dali, Exploding Raphaelesque Head, which I didn't even realise was here! And even a Billy Apple! By the end of it I was deep in the overstimulated brain art swoon.</div>
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I revived with a walk back along the Water of Leith Walkway, which was uncrowded and pleasant, if a touch unnerving in places where the signage was lacking.</div>
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Sunrise on St Giles Cathedral. That's right, sun! The cathedral is beautiful inside, especially the Scottishly blue vaulted ceiling with white beams.</div>
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The Elephant House cafe, where JK Rowling wrote some of Harry Potter. As bragged about right there on the window. Come on Elephant House, be cool about it.</div>
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Greyfriars Bobby. I did not look into why Bobby is famous, because dogs that get memorialised inevitably have a tragic backstory.</div>
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Greyfriars Kirkyard.</div>
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National Museum of Scotland. Very good museum, gorgeous building.</div>
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My new daguerreotype boyfriend. Don't be jealous.</div>
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I do not understand the topography of Edinburgh at all. My hotel is almost level with the castle, and without any discernible downhill suddenly I'm this far below it.</div>
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Albert Memorial in Charlotte Square. I had to visit to pay my regards, one Charlotte Street resident to another.</div>
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I found another Christmas market! Or an annex of the main market! Not that it matters. Bring it on! All of the Christmas!</div>
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Edinburgh Castle. Inside I saw the Stone of Destiny. I love Stones of Somethings <i>and</i> Somethings of Destiny, so it was an incredible opportunity.</div>
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Castle in relation to the city. It's like a sci-fi story where history starts to merge into a single point in time. Then the world ends or something.</div>
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Christmas tree in the castle's Great Hall. That woodwork though. Delicious.</div>
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Down at the other end of the Royal Mile, the Scottish Parliament building.</div>
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I quadranged like a monarch.</div>
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Narrow winding steps up to Mary Queen of Scots' bedchamber, wherein was a plaque stating "Here lay the body of David Rizzio after his murder in 1566", one of the best things I've ever seen at a historic attraction.</div>
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Holyrood Abbey, from the inside and from the gardens.</div>
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Robert Burns Monument.</div>
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Dramatic monument is dramatic. Although formerly it was known as "Scotland's Disgrace" as this is as far as they got with what was supposed to be a complete replica of the Parthenon.</div>
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View back to the castle from Calton Hill. Hopefully not within range of cannon from earlier.</div>
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And just in case I hadn't stood around gaping in amazement enough today, the Street of Light, a light show set to Christmas music on the Royal Mile. So amazing that I used my phone's video function for perhaps the first time ever:</div>
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Finally, Ann, if you're reading this: it happened. I am in the presence of The Headboard. It's more glorious than the human brain can comprehend.</div>
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Looking down the Royal Mile from Edinburgh Castle, which I hope to storm tomorrow.</div>
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Claregalway Castle. We didn't go into the tower because as part of the market there was puppet show inside and we caught a peek at one of the puppets and it was more terrifying than any number of armed guards would have been.</div>
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Claregalway Friary. It's pretty much a ruin, but still with an active graveyard, within which I gave Cormac a dramatic recitation of my poem about Symonds Street Cemetery:</div>
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Statue of Oscar Wilde. I've been trying to exercise my wit in his honour, but it's mostly been taking the form of mocking Cormac's turns of phase, which is ridiculous considering I'm the weird foreigner.</div>
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The Metropolitan Opera House is currently showing a season of The Tempest. How spookily prescient.</div>
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My last view of New York from the cab. The car service I had booked to the airport had to cancel due to no gas. I was super lucky to get a cab, and the driver told me he queued at a gas station from 1am until 6am. I suspected he was exaggerating, until we passed a queue for gas at least a kilometre long. Bloody hell. Needless to say, I tipped like a Rockefeller.</div>
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This was scribbled on the back of the driver's seat in my cab. How appropriate.</div>
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Mostly shopping today. I only like shopping under two conditions: that I know what I want, and that I know where to get it. Souvenir shopping does not meet either of these requirements - but it's the unspoken price for getting picked up at the airport at the other end.</div>
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This is actually yesterday - Halloween cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery. I hope that the storm had thrown them off their game somehow and these are not the cupcakes that built an empire, because the half of one I ate was really really awful. I do like the black cat hiding in the icing though.</div>
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Oh, this is really cool - the Helmsley Building on Park Ave. It's built over the road and the cars tunnel through it.</div>
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Not that I haven't already passed this way several times, but I finally got a photo. Wheeee!</div>
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Self portrait, Saks Fifth Avenue window.</div>
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Rat sculpture. Tee hee.</div>
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The astute reader will have noticed I'm not at the basketball right now. Postponed. Bah. No giant foam finger for Amy.</div>
Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352544520180497607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629018179493856819.post-15298433068794756422012-11-01T09:57:00.000+13:002012-11-01T09:57:26.676+13:00New York the thirteenthHey, my thirteenth day in New York is Halloween! I wonder if this entitles me to a free haunting or face-rip-offening...<br />
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I walked right around Central Park today, up the west side and down the east. Central Park West is a bit of an obstacle course of fallen branches and leaf piles, but Upper East Siders seem to have used the power of hired help to clean their side up.</div>
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Hey, an Apple store queue. I don't think they're even queueing for anything, it's just something that spontaneously happens around Apple stores.</div>
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The Dakota. Imagine...if the park had been open and I'd been able to go to Strawberry Fields.</div>
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Freaking avalanche.</div>
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Northwest corner of Central Park, Fred Douglass Circle.</div>
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Bricked-up windows in Morningside Heights. Some nights you can still hear the screams...</div>
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Morningside Park and the Cathedral of St John the Devine. No barbecuing in this area - all religious martyrs must be crucified or beheaded.</div>
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The northeast and least impressive corner of the park, but I've caught them all now.</div>
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Upper East Side. I could totally stand to live here - even though I think it's actually a dentist's office.</div>
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Cute UES flower bed on the footpath.</div>
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Louis Armstrong sculpture on the Park Ave median strip.</div>
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And finally, books on the windowsill of my hotel's dining room. Smirk.</div>
Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352544520180497607noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629018179493856819.post-78529365595993030312012-10-31T12:25:00.000+13:002012-10-31T12:25:13.276+13:00New York the twelfthSorry I don't have a more harrowing tale of how I survived Hurricane-then-no-longer-a-hurricane Sandy. You're welcome to tell people that someone you know was in New York City the night Sandy hit and got a pretty good sleep, aside from being woken up by a phone call from someone wanting to speak to Joan Jones from Australia and who tried to pass on the message anyway because "well, you <i>sound</i> Australian".<br />
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I walked as far south as 23rd Street this morning to get a misleading-perspective photo of the Flatiron Building. The power is out south of 39th (I was spared darkness by just two blocks!) so the walk down was...well, lacking coffee, but I didn't see any major devastation.</div>
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Weird day today. No subway, no buses, hardly any shops open, tourists with nowhere to take their money wandering around stupidly. I did spend most of the day out walking, but I stayed pretty close to my hotel in case I needed to recover quickly from saturation, and it's kind of a bummer to be here and not be able to do things.</div>
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Back of St Patricks Cathedral. The front is covered with my old nemesis, scaffolding.</div>
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The weather has been unextreme in Midtown - no worse than any tempestuous day in Auckland. All that severe stuff on the news is happening on the ocean coasts, of which Manhattan has none. It does have tidal rivers, and the the lower tip of the island may flood when the tide comes in, but up in Midtown it's mostly inconvenienced out-of-towners.</div>
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This morning I knocked off the last of the major museums on my list, the Museum of Modern Art. MOMA. MO-MO-MO-MO-MOMA.</div>
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Starry Night. I quite like this.</div>
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It's also full of monsters! Muahahahaha!</div>
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Not sure what to make of all this storm business. Abbey's already told me to stand back, but it doesn't feel like there's a hurricane coming through. I did buy a couple of bottles of water, partly as a concession to panic, but mostly to use up this endless stack of dollar notes I've been accumulating.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Also, I later on saw some b-boying at the 34th Street station - and thus was fulfilled all my New York dreams.)</span></div>
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352544520180497607noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629018179493856819.post-49796828699396122682012-10-27T14:09:00.002+13:002012-10-27T14:11:49.936+13:00New York the eighthThere's a chance the hurricane currently besieging the Caribbean is going to collide with some nasty wintriness coming down from Canada, creating the weather equivalent of a liger that will unleash its wrath all over the East Coast early next week. My mission, therefore, is to get out and walk while the walking's good. And probably also to buy a raincoat.<br />
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This is the Winter Garden Atrium. (Man that photo is crooked. I really need to see about getting my fake leg refitted.) I can't quite figure out its purpose - it's like a really under-tenanted mall. It's part of the World Financial Center, and pretty much all that glass was blown out during 9/11. Yikes.</div>
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This is the garden outside the Winter Garden...or something.</div>
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South Street Seaport is old wharves (or "piers", if you will) redeveloped into something like Wynyard Quarter in Auckland plus that mall on the Sydney waterfront. I had lunch at the place with the umbrellas because it's called Pacific Grill and, heh, ocean confusion.</div>
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This is down near City Hall. Those guys standing in the middle there seemed about to break into some b-boying (every so often one of them would bust a partial move) but their hype man couldn't pull a big enough crowd and nothing came of it. </div>
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Later in the afternoon I went up to Rockefeller Plaza. It was so ridiculously familiar - like I'd been there before...in that same reality where Liz Lemon is my best friend.</div>
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I was a little underwhelmed by the NBC studio tour. We did go into Studio 8H, which is where SNL is filmed, and that was exciting, but, well, why do Americans have such a dorky sense of fun? Do they really enjoy being made to finish sentences in unison with a bunch of strangers?</div>
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352544520180497607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629018179493856819.post-81111589353733294752012-10-26T11:23:00.000+13:002012-10-28T17:32:36.811+13:00New York the seventh<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Want to hear a ridiculous story? I was on the Upper West Side, and decided to cut across Central Park to the East Side. I emerged from the park about 20 minutes later, about ten blocks up. And still on the West Side.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also there was Tash's most excellent friend Lee. We had a giddy chat about the whoa-ness of New York, before heading to and parting ways at Grand Central Station where I jumped on the 4 train to the Upper East Side.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(This is not my pic - I stole it off Wikipedia. You're not supposed to take photos, although everyone does. The attendants are really polite about asking you not to - there's no slapping the camera out of your hands or anything - so you feel shamed rather than coerced into obliging.) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bestest part was this, Fireflies on the Water by Yayoi Kasama. For one minute you get shut alone in this room. The floor is water and the walls and the ceiling are mirrored, and hundreds of strings of lights hang down. It's insane and surreal - to quote Philip J Fry, it's like that drug trip in that movie I saw when I was on that drug trip that time. (Again, not my photo).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and tigers...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and DUGONGS! Oh my!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what the crap?! looming dinosaur skellingtons.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nope, still terrible.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aaaand some more pics that no one needs to see of Times Square, this time by night. I'm pretty sure it's only Monday, but it's insaneballs out there.</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pop Tarts - disgusting (it's like Kellogg's smooshes together all the factory byproducts from making actual food and puts some sprinkles on top)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diet Snapple - delicious, and with a fun fact on the inside of the lid ("Jack-o-lanterns were originally made out of turnips")</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McDonald's sundaes - exactly the same (The Clown demands conformity!), but come with a little package of nuts. Heh heh hehehe.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent most of today loitering in and around Times Square, waiting for my show and watching tourists do weird stuff, like flipping compulsively through racks and racks of I heart NY T-shirts. What, do they think the next one might say "I Squirtle NY"?</span></div>
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The show I saw, The Book of Mormon, was extremely silly and I really liked it. Aside from the dancing, which is something that gives me the icks in most musical theatre - all that standard <i>kick, twirl, clap, kick, clap, kick, jazz hands</i>, really, what is it adding?</div>
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